How can I apply free shipping to specific products only?

Payments + Shipping & Fulfilment

Topic summary

A merchant wants to apply free shipping selectively—specifically excluding dropshipped items that incur shipping fees—while maintaining a $55 free shipping threshold for other products.

Key Challenge:
Shopify doesn’t natively support free shipping rules limited to specific products or collections when using order-value thresholds. Mixing eligible and non-eligible items in one cart creates customer confusion.

Suggested Workarounds:

  • Discount codes: Can target specific collections for free shipping, but prevent combining with other discount types
  • Third-party apps: Bespoke Shipping, Better Shipping, Parcelify, and Advanced Shipping Manager enable per-product shipping rules (require Carrier Calculated Shipping, adding $20/month or upgrading to Advanced plan at $299/month)
  • Weight-based manipulation: Assign artificial weights to control which products qualify for free shipping
  • Shipping Profiles: Introduced after the original post, allow different shipping rules per product group—but don’t solve time-limited promotional free shipping for specific items

Ongoing Limitation:
Multiple users report wanting discount codes that offer free shipping on specific products/collections for limited-time promotions. This remains unavailable in Shopify’s native discount system, with requests spanning several years.

Summarized with AI on October 25. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi Leslie,

Sorry, but trying to sell apps or extra plans to shopify users, just to add a free shipping option to a product, is ridiculous. Why don’t you just add a “Free Shipping” checkbox on the product editing page? Keep it simple!

Thank you very much :slightly_smiling_face:

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